Which crimper to get for JST-VH connectors
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Since I purchased the PA09, 20 and 21 I've stopped using my old ratchet crimp tool. I do everything with the PA09 and PA21 now. I don't think the PA20 does anything I have that the 09 or the 21 won't.
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@DaBit said in Which crimper to get for JST-VH connectors:
Remember how long it took before you got the first one correct?
can't say i recall those things ever being troublesome except for putting a A on the other end of a cable someone put an B on; which I'm sure was done on purpose to mess with me. mind you that happened a while before youtube so less "alternative facts" abouts.
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@bearer: then you must be a natural talent
Oh man, the just post-RG58, pre-youtube era. Hubs instead of switches. RJ45 plugs without much guiding of the individual strands. Crimping tool from the local shop, not the best, and no guide at all. Trying to untwist, straighten and align the wires so they would just nicely slide in the RJ45. Crimp, and find out two of them somehow magically swapped location. Cut, one more. Yay, everything OK. But no network, argl. Third is a charm they say. Oops, good crimp but mirrored, looked at the wrong side of the 'example cable'. Sigh, one more...
In my opinion crimping those contacts is the same. If you get a good crimp on the very first try ever you are a natural talent. I am not.
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@DaBit said in Which crimper to get for JST-VH connectors:
If you get a good crimp on the very first try ever you are a natural talent.
It most certainly didn't happen with these types of open terminals until I got a proper tool. (That might be the case with the RJ45 except I started off with a proper tool, possibly Krone or Knipex but that was last millennium so can't be sure).
Anyways getting OT.
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Well, here's my contribution to the cause...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knfcoCRh1ScDon't all upvote the production quality at once.
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@gtj0 said in Which crimper to get for JST-VH connectors:
Well, here's my contribution to the cause...
JST PH? You mean Molex KK?
(and another time code;)Edit: One thing I would have added was to always crimp the connectors on the wire in the same possition sort of speak. I.e. Wires tend to have a natural coil/helix shape from the spool and if you always say, let the direction of the coil run the same direction (clockwise and anti-clockwise) in adittion to always letting the cable curve down behind the crimper your cables will look so much better once in the shells.
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@bearer Stupid time codes.
Anyway I never thought of that explicitly. I've always seemed to do that naturally. Or maybe it's just 40 years of cable management OCD.
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@gtj0 said in Which crimper to get for JST-VH connectors:
Anyway I never thought of that explicitly. I've always seemed to do that naturally. Or maybe it's just 40 years of cable management OCD.
OCD FTW! Just saw one of them were a bit off kilter relative to the other end
In any case, I think that one will actually be a good option for many Duet builders who don't care for the flexibility of the more manual tools.
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@bearer said in Which crimper to get for JST-VH connectors:
OCD FTW! Just saw one of them were a bit off kilter relative to the other end
Yeah I have great OCD but bad eyesight.
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I just remembered that I also forgot to mention the strip length. Maybe I'll do a follow-up on strippers.
Not sure where I found this poster but it's a good guide.
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@gtj0 said in Which crimper to get for JST-VH connectors:
Not sure where I found this poster but it's a good guide.
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@bearer HA!
